Results 9,681-9,700 of 24,340 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I join with the Deputy and confirm that people who share a similar view to him have made representations to me in terms of their personal data being protected and safeguarded in the Bill. There is a need for information to be shared by agencies and Departments. However, it is the utilisation of the data that has exercised some people and, rightly or wrongly, they are concerned about the matter.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Are there still 1,700 now?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 10 and 11 are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the various officials who attended the meeting for their courtesy and co-operation.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (1 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health Identifiers Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 410. To ask the Minister for Health if the inter-hospital transfer of critically ill subarachnoid haemorrhage patients is considered as an emergency; if the emergency ambulance service can be used for the transfer of such patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20178/14]
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. Mr. David Smith is very welcome. I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for attending also. The meeting has been convened to discuss Committee Stage of the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013. Officials are not allowed to speak at the meeting but they are available to be of assistance to the Minister. If the Minister...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Deputy Ó Caoláin wish to make any opening remarks?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: While I will not be opposing the Bill, it is important that the committee looks at the overall health budget allocation and how it is arrived at. I believe the Department of Health has taken a disproportionate number of cuts over the past six years when compared with other Departments. It is important we examine how we can renew staff in the health system and the allocation of resources....
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not say that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the Deputy want a voice vote among those present or does he want to call a vote of the full committee?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (6 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87 the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013 and has made an amendment thereto.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Adams is not one to judge. The Deputy will not shush me or bully me. He will not bully me.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Adams will not bully me.
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: In light of the fact that there was a reduction in the number of passengers passing through Cork Airport in the first quarter of this year, will the State airports (Shannon group) Bill contain specific reference to Cork or will the latter be the subject of specific legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses and guests for the delay and thank them for their patience and co-operation. On behalf of the joint committee, I congratulate our new Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and wish him every success. We look forward to working with him. I pay tribute to the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, who was the first person to occupy the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, and invite him to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: There may also be a vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote in the Dáil.